Government immediately calling an urgent meeting russias invasion, and America Struggle to defend the west. David good morning. Im very grateful to have you here this morning at big picture. Lets talk about who this man was, what he meant in the region, and what this turn of events means for all of the tensions that have been swirling in recent months well good morning casey obviously, a great tragedy that this helicopter went down and it was pretty clear by late yesterday, just from the silence of the iranian officials that they had very little hope that there would be any survivors raisi himself was a very conservative cleric who came in very close to the Supreme Leader of a country, the president of garan is the number two official. Obviously, the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khomeini is this the most important decisionmaker, but the two were very close and he came in to basically run the crackdowns that we have seen on dissent and human rights. He accelerated the support for Terror Gr